Minthara v.1.3 (Rob's edit) by rijstmetbhaat

Format: Commander

Commander: Minthara, Merciless Soul

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Minthara turns every sacrifice, fetch, and Abdel exile into an experience counter, making the whole board bigger while her ward protects her. The main plan is a classic Orzhov aristocrats engine: create tokens, sacrifice them through Carrion Feeder, and drain opponents with Blood Artist effects. Abdel Adrian is the hidden centerpiece: he can exile a developed board, make a Soldier per permanent, then be sacrificed to return everything and fuel a massive, Teysa-doubled death-trigger burst. Secondary paths are a Hatred/Tainted Strike commander kill and a proliferate/poison angle from Ichor Rats and friends. The deck plays a midrange value game and tries to close with one explosive turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blightbelly Rat
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Grateful Apparition
  • 1 Grim Affliction
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 Hatred
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Ichor Rats
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Martyr for the Cause
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minthara, Merciless Soul
  • 1 Mogis's Marauder
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nemesis Mask
  • 1 Odric, Master Tactician
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Crusader
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat